Francois Buzot

Francois Nicolas Leonard Buzot (1 March 1760-18 June 1794) was a member of the Girondins in the National Convention of France during the French Revolution.

Biography
Francois Buzot was born in Evreux, France on 1 March 1760, and he worked as a lawyer before he was elected to the National Assembly in 1789. He demanded the right to bear arms for all citizens and the nationalization of the Catholic church, and he joined the conservative Girondins due to his friendship with Madame Roland. Buzot was instrumental in creating the French National Guard to protect Paris from the sans-culottes radicals, and he voted for Louis XVI of France's execution on the condition that he be pardoned immediately before his death. On 2 June 1793, he was sentenced to death by the Jacobin Club for allying with the Girondins, and he fled to the countryside alongside Jerome Petion de Villeneuve. On 18 June 1794, their bodies were found in a field, half-eaten by wolves, after they killed themselves.